Chapter 8 The Darkness of Officialdom
After being criticized by Chen Xiao, the magistrate of the Imperial Capital Office, who was awesome at the beginning, suddenly turned extremely ugly.
He stared at Chen Xiao tightly, and wanted to refute for a moment but had nothing to say, his face turned red with a suffocation.
Chen Xiao had learned some history at least because he was interested and had a good understanding of ancient official positions. For example, the current official position in the Long Kingdom is very similar to that in the Ming Dynasty in China.
The imperial capital of the Dragon Kingdom is like a capital city.
Most of the divided regions are provinces, prefectures and counties.
The yamen to which this area of the imperial capital is the imperial capital government office, which is the Zhili Prefecture.
The chiefs of other government offices are called prefects, and the chiefs of the imperial capital offices are called prefects.
The prefect of the local government office is under the jurisdiction of the provincial government offices in various places, and the provincial government offices are under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
The prefect of the Imperial Capital Office is in the imperial capital, or is directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, and he occasionally goes to the morning court.
Therefore, the officials of the Imperial Capital are generally higher than those of other government officials and are the officials of the Imperial Capital.
This is not the point. The point is that, in Chen Xiao’s view, although the magistrate in front of him is a sixth rank official, he has no right to manage the county officials under his jurisdiction around the imperial capital.
In other words, this guy acts beyond his authority here.
Seeing that Chen Xiao turned the magistrate's face red with anger, County Magistrate Chen was really scared and hurriedly said to Chen Xiao:
"Son, what are you talking about? Apologize to the Lord Tongzhe..."
As he said that, he said to Zhou Tongzong: "Sir, the ignorant son is ignorant, don't take it to heart..."
Chen Xiao curled his lips: "Dad, everyone is thinking about raiding our house. Are you still so weak? Besides, you should know that he has no right to care about you at all, why should you be afraid of him?"
Chen Wenshan thought carefully when he heard this, but heard that Parliament Zhou Tong finally spoke coldly:
"Okay, that's really good. Yes, I don't have the right to manage the county magistrate. But after all, I'm in the imperial capital, so I don't need to mention the relationship with the prefect and the prefect? I don't have the right to investigate you, but the two prefects can do it. Humph, let's take a look!"
As he said that, then Parliament Zhou stood up and headed out of the county government.
Seeing him leave, County Magistrate Chen's face turned pale: "It's over, son, we're over...why, my dad, I'll bring the silver and bribe the two chief officials first?"
"Are you asking for death for yourself? What if they wear a pair of pants and you go to bribe it, isn't there just the evidence?" Chen Xiao said.
"Then what do you think you should do..." Chen Wenshan lost his room.
Chen Xiao took a deep breath: "When he keeps changing, he can't deal with us for a while. Even if the prefect wants to investigate you, just investigate, review, report, wait for the top to verify and make a judgment, it will take ten days and half a month.
During this period, you can deal with some possible corruption and transfer the money from your family. If you do more things that benefit the people recently, they may not be able to do anything to you when they come to investigate!"
Chen Wenshan was stunned when he heard this, then his eyes lit up and said, "Oh, my son is quick-witted and calm in the face of danger. This is for the great talent."
Chen Xiao rolled his eyes: "Go and do as you please. Whether I can continue to enjoy my happiness in the future depends on this time!"
"Yes, yes, dad will go right away!" Chen Wenshan was reminded by Chen Xiao and immediately prepared to clean up the mess he had embezzled.
Chen Xiao sighed and said, "I'm going to cover up my father who is corruption and bribery, and I want to help him cover it up." What's this?
He returned to the Houya helplessly. Long Jiuling was comforting Chen. Chen Xiao came. Chen hurriedly said, "Son, what's wrong?"
"Mom, don't worry, the sixth-rank magistrate probably accepted a bribe from someone who has a grudge against us and came to cause trouble."
"What? A sixth-rank official? A senior official will kill people. Then our family will be over..." Chen became more and more worried.
Chen Xiao smiled and said, "Mom, the magistrate has been beaten by me in a few words. He is not qualified to take care of Dad, the county magistrate."
Chen said: "But the head of the Imperial Capital Prefecture, the head of the Imperial Capital Prefecture and the Chief of the Mansion are qualified. When the magistrate returns, find them and stirs up the flames. If these two adults also investigate your father, that's the end?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Xiao also understood in his heart that it was indeed the case.
So I still wanted to comfort me for a few words, but before I could speak, I heard Long Jiuling say:
"What kind of prefecture ministers and ministers, these little officials with the size of sesame and green beans, what are you afraid of? Aunt, don't worry."
Chen Xiao glared: "The prefect is a third-rank official, he is all the same as sesame seeds and green beans? Then isn't my father an official with a needle tip?"
Long Jiuling blinked his big eyes and said naively: "Isn't it?"
"Okay..." This girl really doesn't comfort people. A official with a big sesame and green bean is not easy to kill a big needle-point official?
"Anyway, don't worry, what is the prefect? He dares not do anything to you. If he dares to come, I will slap him a few times to help you get angry!"
Long Jiuling said this lightly, but Chen Xiao and Chen just listened to it. They were a little moved, and at the same time they felt that this girl really couldn't comfort people.
In the next few days, Chen Wenshan was busy covering up his corruption and bribery. At the same time, he handled the affairs of the county government very earnestly every day, such as poverty alleviation, improving public security, and personally going to the streets to greet the people.
In short, at Chen Xiao's suggestion, Chen Xiao asked him to do everything he could.
The poverty alleviation basically takes the remaining money from the government office, and the county magistrate Chen takes out half of his annual salary.
Of course, I don’t dare to take more money. If I take out more than his salary, wouldn’t that admit that he is corruption?
In just a few days, Qingyang County's public security has improved. Every day, the magistrate Chen is dealing with the case fairly and honestly. Many poor people have a meal.
So, the people began to respect this county magistrate who had not done much before.
As for the Chen family, what they eat every day is much simpler now, and they have to look poor.
No matter what, even if someone comes to investigate now, just what you see and hear in front of you will definitely not think that Chen Wenshan is a corrupt official, but instead thinks that he is a clean official!
And a few days later, someone really came to the Imperial Capital Mansion.
The one who came was the one Zhou Tong.
Originally, Chen Wenshan was ready to respond to the investigation, but then Punishment Zhou Tong just sneered, then took out a document from the Imperial Capital Mansion and said:
"Chen Wenshan, because you embezzled and accepted bribes, the imperial capital prefecture prefecture reported it, and the Ministry of Personnel verified and stamped it, and submitted it to His Majesty the Emperor for review, and then dismissed you from your official position. Now, you are not the county magistrate!"
Chen Wenshan's face changed and he said, "It's impossible. No one came to investigate. How could he just verify it?"
Punishment Zhou Tong: "Hahaha, Chen Wenshan, you are a corrupt official. Have you forgotten the process of doing things between corrupt officials?"
Chen Wenshan's face was instantly ashamed. He had also embezzled and accepted bribes. How could he not understand the action in this?
Behind the lobby, Chen Xiao's face turned gloomy when he heard all this.
Chapter completed!